Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
